An interplay between reading & songs Reina Ilona Vildebrand – reading performance Mongol child “- an interplay between reading & songs the singer-songwriter Reina Ilona Vildebrand reads from her novel” Mongolian child “(ISBN 978-3-942003-01-8). The novel tells a piece of deutsch-deutscher history with many nuances and richness of contrast. Exciting, sensual, humorous, and courage making a novel succeeded the writer, which is characterized by a rich action and wealth of the person. In the stories, no culprits are”paraded, but people like you and me in all its contradictions – with their errors and longings. The dramatic journey of Irina Willbrecht is described.
Vildebrand does not mince words, describes the often absurd conditions in the East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. In the next moment, she leads the reader sprachgewaltig in war and erotic scenes. The title of “Mongolian child” stands for savagery and rebellion of the child and the young people, but also for the cultural influence of the East. The adult woman suffering from the drama of her family. Addicted to love she gets repeatedly to men, where she nearly breaks. After the end of the GDR must learn laboriously in the West, to cope with the new reality. But the heroine fought their way up and discovered her previously unknown world of faith.
There, she meets the man who presents their new hopes of a test before the eyes of the reader will be a world alive, from which he has never heard and read, and that strangely familiar comes before this. Between passages in the novel, the singer and author intersperses comments, poems and songs, which are suitable to illuminate the relationship between novel and autobiography and offer an exciting, entertaining performance. “The Rheinische post that said to the 23.12.09: ‘Mongolian child’ is a very personal, written with much empathy and linguistic skills book, while at the same time allowing an unusually realistic insight into the former everyday life of the people behind the wall.” “The reading will take place in particular as part of the open stage” in the living room Theater Theater elsewhere “instead. The goal is a varied, interesting and friendly encounter between artists and audience. More artist of the evening are Andrea Griesohn with two Arias and a song, Renee Fox recited Siegfried contemporary the Chase, with Omar Sarrazin feel the moment “, with Petra Speh” L ‘ accordeon , as well as Wolfgang Zollner with his science fiction thriller Atlas without Switzerland.